Lukas Biewald

Lukas Biewald is founder and CEO of CrowdFlower. He previously led the search relevance team for Yahoo! Japan and he worked as a senior scientist/manager of the ranking and metrics team at Powerset, Inc., which was acquired by Microsoft.

Tech-minded volunteers quickly pitched in with a variety of communication and data services in the days following the Haiti earthquake. One company — crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower — repurposed its service as a text-message translation tool to aid Mission 4636. CrowdFlower founder and CEO Lukas Biewald shares his story in this guest post.

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